Discovery Fellows

The Mellon Discovery Fellowship program brings together graduate students from a variety of disciplines at the early stages of their careers in the belief that it is important and valuable to encourage collaborative exchange from the very beginning of graduate study. Funded by the Townsend Center and the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, the program supports seven entering graduate students in the humanities and related fields for their first three years of graduate work at Berkeley.

Discovery Fellows 2009-2012

William Coleman, History of Art
Jonathan Haddad, French
Chloe Kitzinger, Slavic Languages & Literatures
Derin McLeod, Classics
Elizabeth Pearson, Sociology
Chiara Ricciardone, Rhetoric
Marina Romani, Italian Studies

Continuing Discovery Fellows

Kareem Abu-Zeid, Comparative Literature
Juliana Chow, English
Rae Erin Dachille, Buddhist Studies
Lisa Eberle, Ancient History and Mediterranean Archaeology
Emily Frey, Music
Douglas Gildow, Buddhist Studies
Alice Goff, History
Kathryn Heard, Jurisprudence and Social Policy Program
Alexandra Kleeman, Rhetoric
Heather Law, Anthropology
Blanca Misse, French
Godfrey Plata, Theater, Dance and Performance Studies
Megan Wachspress, Jurisprudence and Social Policy Program
Margarita Zaydman, Comparative Literature